Summary: Examples of how these people may have dressed
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The nature of these early clothes means that little remains but we can assume that they would have worn skins of those animals which they hunted and whose meat they ate. They would have worn extra layers as the weather turned colder and probably slept in the same ones they wore during the day. It is probable that they may have tied skins on to their feet as a kind of primitive shoe.
The skins would have been scraped with flint scrapers and animal fat may have been rubbed into these skins to make them more supple.
Small holes were made in the skins with a pointed instrument and through these holes lengths of sinew and tendon were threaded in a form of sewing. Bone pins and toggles have been found and these were used to hold together the various pieces of skin.
Primitive peoples of the twentieth century provide evidence of the sort of jewellery which may have been worn. It is likely that pieces of bone, shell or even teeth were threaded on to a length of sinew and made into a necklace.
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